Existentialist thinkers are of the view that the metaphysical explanation of existence as given by the traditional schools of philosophy fails to produce satisfactory results. They also maintain that the problem of being ought to take precedence in all philosophical inquiry. Being cannot be made a topic of objective study. Being is revealed to and felt by the human being through his own experience and his situation. So it is maintained existence is the first and central problem.

Existentialism stresses the risk, the void of human reality, and admits that the human being is thrown into the world. The world in which pain, frustration, sickness, contempt, and death dominates. It was during the 2nd world war, when Europe found itself in a crisis and faced with death and destruction, that existentialism

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